I was born in 1969 in Hammond, Indiana (just outside Chicago; no baby photo provided). I moved to Cody, Wyoming as a small child in 1975. I graduated from Cody High School in 1987.

My undergraduate days were spent in Laramie at the University of Wyoming. After playing on the club soccer team and briefly studying chemical engineering, I graduated in 1991 with a B.S. in mathematics education.

I spent a few years spent working (crappy jobs), hiking, skiing, drinking microbrews (the younger people call these “craft beers”), and mountain biking in places like Mammoth Hot Springs (Yellowstone Park, Wyoming), Summit County (Colorado), and Golden, Colorado. I also went to Colorado Rockies games at Coors field and alternative rock shows at various venues in the Denver area. I then moved to Greeley and studied applied statistics at the University of Northern Colorado, graduating with an M.S. in 1997 and a Ph.D in 2000.

I was hired by Murray State University in 2000 and began as an assistant professor that fall. I was tenured and promoted to associate professor in 2006, then promoted to full professor in 2014. I have spent this time teaching statistics & mathematics, pursuing research interests in goodness-of-fit, statistical education, and statistical ecology, and providing statistical consulting for faculty and students. I spent a lot of time writing R code and learning more about statistics, data science, and wherever else that takes me.

When I’m not doing that, I’m traveling, pretending I’m a foodie, playing poker, catching some live music or a Predators game in Nashville, or kayaking on Kentucky Lake. I also fancy myself as a “field statistician” now, with experience on biological projects in 2009 (in Kentucky) and 2011 & 2013 (at Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory north of Crested Butte, CO).

Obviously 2020 made travel impossible, so I worked on getting in better shape (jogging slowly, swimming, kayaking, tai chi, thoroughly exploring Wildcat Creek Embayment) and instead of listening to live music, I listened to music at home, new and old. I like both vinyl and CD (I’m a physical format kind of guy). I also played online play chip poker with my friends.

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